Ecophysiology, Abiotic Stress Responses and Utilization of Halophytes
Halophytes are those plant species that can tolerate high salt concentrations. There are diversified species of halophytes suited for growth in various saline regions around the world, e.g. coastal saline soil, soils of mangrove forests, wetlands, marshla
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Ecophysiology, Abiotic Stress Responses and Utilization of Halophytes
Mirza Hasanuzzaman • Kamrun Nahar Münir Öztürk Editors
Ecophysiology, Abiotic Stress Responses and Utilization of Halophytes
Editors Mirza Hasanuzzaman Department of Agronomy Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kamrun Nahar Department of Agricultural Botany Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Dhaka, Bangladesh
Münir Öztürk Botany Department & Centre for Environmental Studies Ege University Izmir, Turkey
ISBN 978-981-13-3761-1 ISBN 978-981-13-3762-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3762-8
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Foreword
Professor Chedly Abdelly
Land salinization is a major limiting factor for conventional crop production and plant diversity in natural biotopes. Climate change, affecting several regions in the world and marked mainly by the rarefaction of precipitation and the increase in temperatures, exacerbates this situation. The nonrational use of chemical fertilizers and unconventional organic fertilizers as well as pesticides has amplified soil and water salinization and caused soil contamination by heavy metals and several other pollutants. Thus, the global annual losses in agricultural production from saltaffected land are worryingly spreading and worsening. This situation is of major concern considering (i) the current global climate change tendency, and (ii) that agricultural production should increase by 50 to 70% by 2050 to match the projected population growth to 9.3 bill
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